Re: [opensuse] Re: Running a program as root from desktop panel


On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:29 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:

I, personally, like top posting. If, for some reason, my memory is so
poor that I can't remember what the thread is about I can always scroll
down to find out.

So do I, and I find myself taking a bit longer to respond because of
bottom posting. But I can see it has its benefits.

A couple other things you might need to know to save you from getting
roasted over the flames:

Reply ONLY to the list. NEVER to the person [ unless requested to do so
]. I use Firefox and there is a rather hard to find extension called
"Reply to List". You can Google for it. Follow the instructions on the
site to get it set up. Otherwise use "Reply to All" and remove the extra
address's

This actually is something of a challenge. Many of us by force of habit
click "reply" and I keep having to stop myself before sending and
re-doing the whole thing. On other mailing lists, the system always
changes the "reply-to" header to the actual mailing list. So when we
click "reply", it won't reply directly to the person instead of the
list. Can't we make that change here? It would probably make many
lives easier. I know manmail does this because I've configured it as
such to do so in the past.

Trim down the quoted portion of the e-mail you are replying to. [ Notice
I did that to your message that I am replying to. ] Having to scroll
through umpteen pages of quoted message is VERY annoying to anyone. [
the reason I like top posting - most people don't trim the reply quote ]
I use an official Mozilla extension called "Quick Quote". With this I
highlight the text I want to quote and right click. Choose "Quote in
Reply to All" and trim out the extra address's. Reply To List doesn't
have a "quote" option. It just quotes the whole message and you have to
manually trim.

But doesn't this sort of defeat the purpose of bottom posting? In
effect, when we're trimming, we're creating a new thread. If the
purpose of bottom posting is to give readers a chance to catch up on the
conversation as a whole if they've stepped in late in the game, then
they've missed the topic in its entirety when we clip.

I just joined this list this week (and I love this list so far...) but
there were ongoing conversations when I joined, and people trimmed down
as suggested. Reading those posts, I had the feeling there was more to
it than what I was reading in front of me.

Not to mention, clearly the topic of this conversation is now different
from the original topic of this conversation. How are we supposed to
handle that? Retitle the subject?

Just another newbie feeling my way around. :-)
Bryen


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